Results 21-33 of 33 for waste management speaker:Bríd Smith

Waste Disposal: Motion [Private Members] (4 Jul 2017)

Bríd Smith: Dillon Waste last filed accounts here in 2007, at which time it retained profits of €3.3 million, and Greyhound last filed accounts here in 2009, at which time it retained profits of €8.5 million. How are we supposed to know whether these companies are losing money, are profitable or are going to the wall? There is a proliferation of them. As in the case of Tony Soprano, it...

Waste Disposal: Motion [Private Members] (4 Jul 2017)

Bríd Smith: ...not deal with the main issue of increases in bin charges. According to Fianna Fáil, a regulator will ensure there is a competitive market. The reality is that the market is the problem, it is not part of the solution. Waste collection was introduced here in the late 1800s to address the problem of cholera on our streets. It is an essential service. Nobody could tolerate...

Questions on Promised Legislation (28 Jun 2017)

Bríd Smith: ...time last year a motion on bin charges tabled by the Government and supported by Fianna Fáil was passed. At least five measures in that motion have not been implemented. However, today privatised waste collection companies, practically all of which are registered offshore so we have no idea what profits they make, are being given carte blancheto raise waste collection charges while...

Companies (Accounting) Bill 2016: Report and Final Stages (22 Mar 2017)

Bríd Smith: ...for bin collection throughout the State. When it became a big political issue on the floor, we discovered a group of companies were unlimited and registered offshore. We considered whether waste management companies have an issue with the amount they could charge per lift or per standing charge per year as they were declaring poverty and argued they were nearly broke. We could not find...

Local Government Reform (Amendment) (Directly Elected Mayor of Dublin) Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (22 Nov 2016)

Bríd Smith: ...then one is fooling people. People like me and others have run in local elections over the years. We successfully got elected on the basis of manifestos where we promised to do something about housing, waste management, libraries and planning, which are the issues that concern people in their local communities. We addressed these issues, as people who were willing to put ourselves...

Leaders' Questions (5 Jul 2016)

Bríd Smith: ..., who is going in to chair it with his own set views on it. I know of some citizens who applied to be considered for this commission, some of whom have considerable expertise in the environment, waste management and water management and they were not even given the respect or the decency of an explanation as to why their applications failed or that they would not be considered suitable....

Waste Collection Charges: Motion [Private Members] (21 Jun 2016)

Bríd Smith: ...and so on. Indeed, the kowtowing or the Cowen-towing of colleagues from Fianna Fáil was quite similar. It was all very nice, all polite gentlemen, all talking to the gentleman, so called, in the waste management industry and getting on well with them and getting agreements with them that they would freeze things and would not touch people and would do this, that and the other. It...

Waste Collection Charges: Motion [Private Members] (21 Jun 2016)

Bríd Smith: It is not appropriate to make it but I am thinking aloud here. The Minister really is asking Members to adopt the spirit in which these godfathers of the waste management industry have spoken to him. I am sorry but that is precisely why we have tabled this motion, because we do not believe in spirits; we believe in legislation that would curtail the profiteering-----

Waste Collection Charges: Motion [Private Members] (21 Jun 2016)

Bríd Smith: ...the limited pay and conditions they had, were bullied and intimidated. What has resulted from that dispute, and I have spoken to some trade union organisers about this, is that throughout the waste management industry, workers work on very low-paid contracts. They are working dangerous hours and as already mentioned earlier, some trucks are operating with two men, generally speaking,...

Waste Collection Charges: Motion [Private Members] (21 Jun 2016)

Bríd Smith: I move:That Dáil Éireann:notes:— the steady increase of charges for waste collection and the removal of waivers since the privatisation of waste management; — the recent outrageous plans to increase the standing charges for the collection of household waste that are proposed by many private waste management companies; — the severe hardship these rises will...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committees (8 Jun 2016)

Bríd Smith: Did he mention one on waste management?

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committees (8 Jun 2016)

Bríd Smith: We will need one because the issue of charges for green bins came up in the House less than a month ago. This is the waste that generates profit through recycling. The proposal was then retracted by the new Minister with responsibility for housing, planning and local government. We now find that the big cartel companies, Thorntons Recycling and Greyhound Recycling, are doubling and...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Waste Disposal (24 May 2016)

Bríd Smith: ...introduced payment for green bin charges and ensure that, in the interests of the environment, all recycling is incentivised by remaining free of charge by local authorities at bring centres and by waste management companies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11599/16]